LONDON - British artist David Hockney, one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art, whose paintings captured the world in brilliant colour, has died at the age of 88, his publicist said on Friday.
One of the leading participants in the Pop art movement in the 1960s, Hockney established himself as a globally renowned painter and master draughtsman and kept painting, experimenting and exhibiting right up until his death.
Lauding him as “one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries”, publicist Erica Bolton said he died “peacefully at home” in London on Thursday, a month before his 89th birthday.
